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Donations for the Library were reported from the Mining 
Bureau at Melbourne; School of Mines at Ballarat; R. 
Danish Society; Imp. Academies at Berlin, Vienna and 
Bruxelles; the Scientific Club at Vienna; Art Union at 
Ulm; R. Observatory at Turin; M. Aless. Dorna; R. Acad. 
at Rome; M. F. De Saussure and Rev. Pol. Paris; R. So- 
ciety, R. Institution, R. Ast. Society, Meteor. Committee, 
and Nature, London; Lord Lindsay ; Canadian Journal of 
Sciences, Toronto; B.S. N. History; Observatory at Har- 
vard College; Amer. Chemist; Franklin Institute, Acad. 
Nat. Sciences, Jour. Pharmacy, Med. News, Penn Monthly, 
and Zoological Society at Philadelphia; Prof. E. D. Cope ; 
Mr. Horace W. Smith; Mr. Joel A. Allen; the U.S. Fish 
Commission; U.S. War Department; Mr. Edwin A. Bar- 
ber; Botanical Gazette of Logansport, Ind. ; Wisconsin State 
Historical Society ; M. Barcena, of Mexico; and Silliman’s 
Journal. 
A copy of the Proceedin 
laid upon the table. 
The death of Mr. Edmund Quincy, a member of the 
Society, was announced by the Secretary. 
Dr. Sadtler read a paper entitled, “* Dichlorsalicylic Acid, 
by Dr. Edgar F. Smith, Ph.D.” 
Pending nominations Nos. 836, 837, 838, were read. 
The chairman of the Committee on the Wootten process, 
Dr. R. E. Rogers, read the following report : 
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s, No. 99, just published, was 
The Committee to whom was referred the examination of Mr. John E. 
Wootten’s method of utilizing coal dirt from the waste heaps in the anthra- 
cite mining regions by the Resolution of the Society of November 17, and 
December 1, 1876, respectfully report : 
Unanimously, that the method of Mr. Wootten as exhibited to them is 
meritorious and successful. 
But they disagree as to its originality ; and they therefore prefer to refer 
the question of the award of the premium to the Society. 
Signed by R. E. Rogers, Wm. A. Ingham, J. Blodget Britton, Robert 
Briggs and Geo. F. Barker. 
After a full statement of their individual opinions had 
been made by the members of the Committee who were 
present, 
